Bug 1174606 (CVE-2014-8117)

Summary:	CVE-2014-8117 file: denial of service issue (resource consumption)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bressers, fedora, jkaluza, jorton, ksrot, mmaslano, rcollet, sardella, security-response-team, slawomir, webstack-team
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	file 5.21	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the way the File Information (fileinfo) extension parsed Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a PHP application using fileinfo to consume an excessive amount of system resources.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2016-05-11 06:49:48 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1174608, 1238984, 1284826
Bug Blocks:	1171586, 1210268, 1278736

Description Murray McAllister 2014-12-16 04:41:25 UTC

Thomas Jarosch of Intra2net AG reported a denial of service issue (resource consumption) in the ELF parser used by file(1). Using file(1) on a specially-crafted ELF binary could lead to a denial of service (resource consumption).

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/file/file/commit/6f737ddfadb596d7d4a993f7ed2141ffd664a81c

Due to some regressions found when testing, the following commits are also required:

https://github.com/file/file/commit/8a905717660395b38ec4966493f6f1cf2f33946c
https://github.com/file/file/commit/90018fe22ff8b74a22fcd142225b0a00f3f12677
https://github.com/file/file/commit/6bf45271eb8e0e6577b92042ce2003ba998d1686

Refer also to bug 1171580 (CVE-2014-8116).

Acknowledgements:

Name: Thomas Jarosch (Intra2net AG)

Comment 2 Murray McAllister 2014-12-16 05:10:17 UTC

Created file tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1174608]

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-02-18 05:55:28 UTC

file-5.22-2.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 08:09:56 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:2155 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2155.html

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-10 19:47:34 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2016:0760 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0760.html